You gotta love lizards.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:05 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/sc_ ... dragons_dc

This is so cool.

Graeth · Post by **Graeth** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:23 am

Sucks for the males....

Cacopheny · Post by **Cacopheny** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:24 am

Dude, that is cool o.o

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:26 am

Graeth wrote:Sucks for the males....

Actually no, because they are all born male

They'll just be making little inbred creatures - but then with *one parent* I suppose that's irrelevant!

Graeth · Post by **Graeth** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:36 am

Shard wrote: They'll just be making little inbred creatures

I can just imagine that, several generations down the line; when the genepool shrinks and dries up, they'll be walking into walls and eating their own tails.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:55 am

I think they've been doing this for a long, long time anyway - fish do it, I think some amphibs do it too, lots of lizards really. They're more simple than mammals, I guess, it's easier to get away with it.

The first generation's all inbred technically - but it usually takes a lot more than that to do any damage. And I'd imagine that this would be how a lot of the variety of species on islands (which they mention) would have come about. If they don't make it, meh, but if they do - hey maybe those tails taste pretty good, eh??

My ... cat seems to like bringing us lizard tails in the summer, so.... lol!